Its Summer! - the Fever Cricket Thread.

Sack the Board!

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/8059171/Taylor-Hesson-at-odds-over-back-up-skipper 

LOLZ!  TL/Bopman, looks like your boy Kane isn't an option either as long as Hesson is around.  If your name isn't McCullum your just not captaincy material!

Nathan McCullum?!?!?!? He barely even captains Otago. I wasn't really buying the whole biased thing, but if this is true....

What's next, Jimmy Neesham T20 captain?

Where was Nate when Kane captained them in the Windies?

McCullum didn't play in the first ODI, injured maybe? So Kane was probably left in charge after that.

And now I think about it, Wright had the team then so of course it was Kane.

Well I'm sure he's determined to show the selectors he has something to offer in the middle order. How many people do you get going to four dayers in Wellington btw, would it beat the 25 or so who turn up in Hamilton?

Gillespie in for Milne...

Terrible decision. I can understand blooding expensive youngsters like Milne and McClenaghan in T20 but Gillespie is terrible at T20s, it's another showing of the NZ selectors thinking "If he's good at one format he's good at them all".

If the roles were reversed for a test match everyone would be mad but since it's T20 and nobody cares then it's been ignored, I don't care about t20s but I do care about our selectors making right decisions

Has anyone been using the new (ish?) feature on www.blackcaps.co.nz? While on the live scoring page click on the wicket description, for example - "c L Ronchi b JEC Franklin" and a video of the wicket plays. Pretty sweet for people who can't get down to watch. 

I knew they were offering it but haven't been looking. Might go back and have a look at the wickets Milne and McLennaghan have taken this year.

I think I read you can get footage of boundaries as well? Ryder innings may be worth a look.

Yep sorry and the boundaries too, click on the number of boundaries in the batsmen's column under "4s" and "6s"..

It's a great initiative but I keep ruining it by talking over the video, poor Corey Anderson had his first 100 ruined by the press box berating the fieldsman who dropped a clanger.

Bellerive keeping low already in first over.  Not sure if it is due to the pitch or the fact that Kulasakera is slower than Franklin.

Surely not.  I don't take much from White saying he hasn't heard of it as he also says he had no clue about Taylor being sacked while in SL, so obviously he isn't kept in the loop about this sort of unimportant stuff.

Tim is hardly vice-captaincy material..... Almost every other player is a more viable candidate. Kane is surely the way to go.

That would be another unbelievable move by Hesson and co. 

Big game tomorrow at Karori Park, quite a few of the test squad playing. Looking forward to it but shame the weather is meant to pack in on Tuesday.

Karori pitch this afternoon.

Why is Malinga playing in the big bash and not the test series?

If SL get off to a reasonable start tonight we could be set for an interesting final day tomorrow.

Southee!!!! 

Firbirds have done the full 180 in a week. I was with them in the sheds on thursday when they celebrated a good win over CD and today you wouldn't have wanted to be within 100m of the changing room, in fact that's about how far I was from them and what I could hear wasn't good. 

Love test cricket!!!  An hour to go and 3 wickets to take. 

edit: And with 150 runs to get Herath is playing like he is chasing the runs!

:-( One wicket to go and 12 overs.  

Chopped onto his foot and it rolled back.  Terrible luck.

This is most annoying...

Cock.

Balls.